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Linus Torvalds Q&A
Kate Mackenzie
JANUARY 16, 2004
LINUX creator Linus Torvalds spoke to Australian IT during his visit to Adelaide this week
for Linux.conf.au, his second after attending last year's conference in Perth.
What made you come to Australia two years in a row?
It's summer here, and it's winter in California (laughs). But literally, there are only two
conferences I go to anymore, because I like the technical ones, and the Australian one, as
far I can tell.. it's not organised in the commercial conference kind of sense. But that just
means it's a lot more relaxed, the people just talk about technology, they don't try to sell
stuff. And these days in the US it's unheard of, you can't make money with this kind of
conference, so I go to the Australian one and I go to one in Canada (Ottawa Linux Symposium).